transcript and video of franken's speech today

[orleans]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politics/speech-al-franken-transcript/index.html

[dweller]

1. thank you

I didn't get to see this live
😔

[dweller]

2. and again, thank you

I had to bookmark this to watch when I had the privacy and a bit of space to view it...

this day will go into my memory bank... along with a memory from my childhood, 4th grade, being released midday from school in November and walking home with my brothers and arriving to find our mother in tears, vacuming the floors at home ...

and several years later, while on a summer? neighborhood camp out with some older high school guys and my older brother around a fire while listening to a transistor radio, news of Bobby causing a guy we called Jinx breaking down in tears...

oh and I forgot Martin, but I didn't forget ... I was just a white kid in the south and was not allowed to really see or learn or question it... but I did ...

and then later, another memory of my dad when I saw him the evening of Wellstone's death, evident that he'd been crying... he told me under his breath, it was a hit... this from a postal carrier from the south a gov. Union dem that I've never suspected to believe in a conspiracy ... but I remember him consoling my mom those years ago when he came home, that day in November with tears in his face...

so again, thank you, I needed to see this in its entirety, and commit to the memory bank... I get to experience the full tearful grief of my peers and mentors, with the benefit of not having to watch an actual but virtual assassination of a liberal democratic powerhouse ... again

🙏🏻

[octoberlib]

3. He looks like hes about to cry. Makes me sick to my

stomach.